Jose de Zuñiga

Jose de Zuñiga (1670-17) was a general of Habsburg Spain who was a veteran of the War of the Spanish Succession.

Biography
Zuñiga was born in Spanish Florida in 1670 to a Criollo (Creole, pure white) family of Basque origin (Zuñiga comes from Basque "Eztuinaga" from Basque Navarre). In 1708 he was made a General in Charleston in the Province of the Carolinas, which the Spanish had occupied without much resistance during the War of the Spanish Succession. He pushed on to Williamsburg in Virginia, and captured many East Coast settlements under the control of Great Britain.